Installing on an external hard drive

[Christopher Browne]

On 7/10/05, Marc Lijour <marc-bbkyySd1vPWsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On July 10, 2005 06:28, James Knott wrote:
> > Marc Lijour wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I believe it is possible to install easily a Mandriva system on a
> > > hard-drive mounted in an enclosure (USB).
> > >
> > > Questions
> > > Where to put the bootloader? (MBR will work?)
> > > What happens if the USB drive gets another ID?
> >
> > The first thing, is to determine if the computer can boot a USB hard
> > drive.  Not all can.
> 
> Ok. That is a new computer. Now I have already 2 or 3 usb devices connected to
> the the computer and I wonder how they will be numbered?

With modern filesystems, you can attach labels to them so that mount
can go and look for the appropriately-labelled partition and mount it
at the right spot.

I'd be unsurprised to see them vary between /dev/sda, /dev/sdb,
/dev/sdc, and such...

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